what kind of lame-ass dork would spend $200 on some worthless plastic garbage that does nothing but give you blatantly false information

for fuck’s sake, LLMs do not possess knowledge. they generate believable text, that’s it. you can’t trust any information it spits out, it’s just a word prediction algorithm AHHHH STOP TREATING IT LIKE AN INFORMATIONAL TOOL

even if this “AI” shit was even remotely useful, who wants to carry around some stupid orange device that does nothing your smartphone can’t already do? whoever buys this trash deserves to get grifted

PS I hate Swedish minimalist design. this shit looks like a toy for a 4 year-old, which happens to be mental age of anyone who would buy this crap

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right now is a prime time to get into AI scams. Start taking the bag from gullible dumbass techbros.

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This thing, and the pin projector thing it’s competing with, are so bad even the gullible dumbass techbros are making fun of them

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not ambidextrous

I’ve barely started the video and they already fucked up

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My favorite part is that it has a touch screen but refuses to accept input from it in 99% of the interface in order to force you to use the scroll wheel

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A scroll wheel that requires almost a full turn to scroll one line but also is smooth plastic, with no knurling to help scroll

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And has no detents for physical feedback, and sticks out the back enough that the device can never lie flat, and the wheel can’t be used while the device is lying on a surface

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And with no way to make it spin further except rotate it 30 degrees, let go, grab, rotate it 30 degrees…

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I love how AI products manage to be as useless as crypto ones. It’s genuinely just the same shell game by and for the same people but they built shitty google instead of shitty debit cards and shitty casino chips. My phone has been so much better than this thing since 2018.

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The funniest part is the fact that everything that this device promises to do is easily done by your phone. $200 device that I have to keep charging to play music through Spotify and get a fucked up doordash order? Fucking lmao. Phones can do it better and faster. Which is MKBHD’s point too. Phones are fucking op. These companies are just trying to milk the AI bros.

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Between this and the Humane pin, it’s so fucking funny to me that MKBHD of all people is the one dragging them so hard. The dude is like peak techbro gadget-head and even he openly fucking hates these things and thinks they’re stupid as fuck.

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like even if LLMs were actually good at anything, why is this a whole device and not just an app

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Well the Humane AI wants to replace your phone🤣

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since it can’t do that, it seems like a cheaper wearable with a bluetooth link to the phone would have been the way to go

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These AI boxes feel like a product people would use in an alternate universe where smart phones are still being developed

I think the way products like this get created is from a fixation with futurist media from creators’ formative years that is incompatible with living in the actual future that came to pass.

When I was a kid reading the Hunger Games, I thought those communicuff things they got in the third book were so cool. I wanted one so bad, it just screamed “future” to me. But in reality, it’s just a big impractical smartwatch with less functionality, like the Rabbit is a tiny impractical smartphone with less functionality. They want to create the future based on their conception of the what the future is, but that’s not how it works. The real future isn’t THE FUTURE, it’s things that look a little nicer and do a little more stuff until you look back and realize how far things have come. Skipping the queue and trying to predict the future in this way just doesn’t work unless you’re supremely lucky. How do I know? Another anecdote: As a kid I used to buy old popular science magazines for ten, twenty-five cents apiece from the library where my brother got tutoring. Usually just a year or two old, but some were older. None of the stuff they were predicting panned out, at least not really as they predicted it, and they do it for a living.

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